User blog comment:Anobi/Post 1: DmC: Devil may Cry/@comment-976055-20110929171030

I'm actually interested in DmC, and I've been a fan of the DMC series since the firs game, I among only a few others, even loved the second game. Sure it wasn't as good as the others, but DMC2 gave birth to a lot of what we see in DMC3, touted as the best of the series to date.

With DmC I look at it like this; it's another developer's take on the DMC concept. It's no different than reading Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," then watching Disney's "Alice in Wonderland," or playing American McGee's "Alice" games. It's all a different interpretation, and I'm fine with that. They've stated that this is not canon, and I believe that, considering the changes made, like him being a devil/angel hybrid. With this being a reboot/retelling, there's no way that it craps on the current DMC mythos.

I'm reserving judgment on the whole "by not being human he won't have any connection to humanity~" thing, because as a writer myself, I know there are plenty of ways to work around stuff like that. For one, Angels were servants of god, and inherently watched out for humans. He may not have a very sympathetic tie to the humans, but it could very well be an inherent sense of duty just by the blood in him.

Heck, there could be a whole dynamic in the game where Dante is coming to grips with which side he lets control him. His selfish, compulsive demon side, or his altruistic, dutiful angelic one, or maybe he could realize that sometimes you need both in order to ultimately reach your goals.

I suddenly remember the David Hume quote placed that the very beginning of the Announcement trailer: "Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."

I also randomly realized something about his hair. They've said it was black for a reason, and that you can still see some white in it. Maybe, since he's essentially a kill-on-sight target for all the demons of Limbo City, he dyed his hair black, so he didn't stand out like a sore thumb everywhere he went. Of course, as your hair grows, your natural hair color (Dante's being white) will start to show through the dye :p